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It's one of those ideas that never die - services to comment on sites have been around for more than a decade - I've seen a few during the dotcom boom. The problem always is lack of critical mass - the service user base is tiny compared to the vast amount of pages on the web. The chance of me finding and another user commenting on the same web page is tiny even if you have millions of users.

Consider making something sites can embed and make available to all their users instantly. For starters be THE service for a few sites instead of one of a dozen services for the whole internet. Something like a Disqus with drawing.

Also, no excuse in 2014 to use screenshots instead of the actual HTML of the site.

Thanks for the feedback andr.

I was thinking of it as using it for fast communication with designor to illustrate small points but I would definitely like to explore the social aprt of it (seeing what others commented and os on). Great idea also on the embedding comment.

I went the screenshot way but, if I used html I think the only option would be to code the js as a bookmarklet. It is an interesting option btw.

The "Enter URL" box on the front page has "http://example.com" as the hint, but if you type in "http://example.com" it adds a second "http://" to the front, i.e. "http://http://example.com" and then fails to load (the image is a 404).

You have to be sure to OMIT the http:// part for the site to work.

Also, on Chrome, dragging on the image frequently literally drags the image (rather than drawing). When the drawing does work, it happens about 2 inches to the right of where my cursor is actually placed.

Thanks for the feedback, I was subtituting the http if present. I'll take a look at the dragging thing too.

edit:I updated the hint also. edit: it seems like on webkit offsetLeft does not work onReady, I am changing to be onload instead ASAP.

Great idea and nice simple UI, this is literally the exact workflow I have for drawing my feedback on website proofs that I get from our designer, but I do it with a drawing tablet and MacPaint (I'm not that advanced). I'd really love something that let a designer just email me a link to a proof that I could annotate, and automatically send him my feedback. Right now the process is download-from-Google-Drive-and-open-in-MacPaint, draw-my-feedback, then export-as-image-and-put-back-on-Google-Drive.

Thanks primitivesuave. I plan to make this work on a tablet to ease the workflow you just commented.

I think by now all the 404 images should be solved. I was using xvfb and it lacked the proper parameter to not be overloaded with so many requests.

I am fixing the offset in webkit as soon as possible.

Thanks for all the bug reporting and opinions.

edit:grammar

Doesn't work on Chrome. I just see a missing image

It appears to be down. I'm curious to check it out since I was working on something very similar.

None of the drawing or notation features seem to be working (Win 7 x64, Chrome 32.0.1700.76 m).

Fails to display anything at all if the browser is set to reject cookies.

Nice site but the background on the homepage makes the text unreadable

The image seems to be missing (404)

there seems to be some recursion when sitecommenter.com is entered.

and drawing doesn't work. meh.

This should be solved by now. It broke under "so many" visits and during some seconds i accidentally some javascript.

not working on mozilla.

I am looking at it at Firefox and it seems to look right. Could you give me some more detail so that I can fix it?

  Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (NOT FOUND)
  http://sitecommenter.com/generated_img/79.png

I think the image generation is failing randomly. I uploaded a gif showing how I see the interaction. I 'all take a look at it and update it soon. http://nimga.com/m/3FYRo.gif

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